Author: Olivia

My husband, “Billy”, has always been the hardest working person I know. Seven years ago, he started as a sales rep for an online marketing company (DM me and I’ll name and shame) and he worked his way all the way up to Director. 60 hours a week and the only time he took “vacation” was to go to the dentist. He consistently got to go on the lavish annual company trips because he was so good in all of his roles. In fact, a week ago they were confirming him to go to the next one in Vegas because he had won again (the last one was in Cancun). He just had his annual review in January and received another raise ($200K a year with commission and worth every penny). But today, out of nowhere, he got pulled into the CEO’s office and everything changed. He was given the…

Lol, was told today by my boss with a manager witness that in order to take sick leave I have to wake up even earlier then I already do for work, not getting paid of course, to make sure I'm sick or not and call at that time. So I have to call in hours before I start work. Doesn't matter if I fall ill while sleeping. And it was highly emphasized that taking to much sick time would be punished. I looked up the state law and it says that's a no, no and is on the fence of being a no no, for the first part. Basically an employer in my state cannot penalize an employee for taking sick time. I will call when I wake up at my normal time. That's that. They will not have anymore of my free time and I see 3 am calls…

I am incredibly angry right now and do not know what to do. I work as a research contract employee through a contracting company at a large agricultural research company. I am hired by the contracting company to work for the actual company that I am physically at forty hours a week. This position is a high level research position that required a bachelors degree in biology/chemistry/something related. I am involved directly in the research and development pipeline with my work here. The other contract employee in my lab was just hired for a full time position with the actual company in a different part of the lab, so we are hiring another contractor to fill her spot. I was trying to help a friend apply to the spot so I looked up the application online to send to him. The starting pay is listed as $19/hour. I have been…

Hello everyone! (I live in Canada not USA)** So some background, I've been working for this company for about 3 1/2 years and I really like my job and the people I work with. My job is pretty easy, I take inbound calls for a few credit card companies to do customer service. My only complaint with my employer is that they suck for wages. 3 years ago when I started I made Min wage ($14), and now I make $15.35. Last year this company's net income was 600 Million. I don't think it's unreasonable to want a much higher increase in my raise this year considering how much money they make. What kind of increase do you think I can ask for, and how do I do it, I've had no experience with this before. Also, I can threaten to leave but I wouldn't because there are so…

I am meant to be working tomorrow. Nobody can cover for me tomorrow. After some back and forth she said I should still come into work. They've tried to force other staff to come in tomorrow. They want me to come in and spread a stomach bug at work. It's unreal. I can't think it's legal as well. Managing director up until 5 minutes ago was refusing agency staff. However she had the realisation there really will be nobody available tomorrow. What really pisses me off is my manager claiming she cares about our welfare when it evidently a complete lie.

I feel like the number of people who want to be content creators has risen dramatically over the past 5-10 years. Particularly for Gen Z and Younger Milennials born around 1995 or later. I wonder what impact this will have on how Gen Z and what they decide to do with their lives. It definitely feels like more and more people are definitely trying to escape from the Corporate 9-5 Grind though in any way they can.